An old woman is alone on a bed in a dimly lit room.
　

I've reached my limit... 150 years... and I don't know how you can live your life to cling to it. It's a perpetual thing.
....

　The old woman spoke slowly, her body barely moving, her face tilted just a little bit toward the girl.
　She was the woman who clung to life the longest in the world. She had been given various life-prolonging treatments and continued to chase her dream of becoming an immortal until the day she lay on the floor.
　But this was never for her own sake but to keep fighting against the wall of life expectancy, lest she leave behind one of her precious ... truly precious beings.

　But unfortunately, the old woman could not cross that barrier........................so soon her life would be over.

But ... well ... being on the verge of death ... well, when I am on the verge of death ... I see it all the more clearly. I have been a rewarder of blessedness and I would have been punished if I had desired any greater happiness.
.....
"...just one thing I'm ...sorry ...for ...until you finish.
....
"I'm sorry but I'm going to leave you to go on ahead.

　She realizes that she is dying and apologizes to her best friend, with whom she has spent most of her life, for dying first.
　Then a number of tears fall on the old woman's hand..........................

'....No........'
...Yeah?
"No no Iris please don't die please don't leave me alone. .....

　The girl, who had become immortal, cried out to the old woman with tears in her eyes, telling her not to die.
　Already the old woman was the last of the beings she loved with all her heart and soul have all died out, except for the old woman.

"....as usual you are selfish but I'm sorry...
"...Iris...
Hey...　Do you mind if I ask one thing of you........for a favor?
"...what?　Uh-huh.

　Reaching out a withered branch-like hand to the girl's eyes, wiping away the tears with a trembling hand, the old woman speaks slowly ... with a smile on her face.

''Do you remember ... the bet I made a long time ago ...?　You see it was a trading city...
'What?　Yeah ... 'Who can make a lover first?' right?
Yeah I guess we're not ready for love at the end of the day...
"Well it's not that you couldn't do it, Iris, it's that you didn't.　For me.....

　It was a small game they played a long time ago, a small bet between two girls who had never been in love and who could fall in love and make a lover first, such a small bet.
　But in the end, the bet never came to an end. The girl who had become an immortal monster, of course, and the old woman should have had the opportunity, but she cut them all off without hesitation...............................and chose to remain with the girl.

''Well no it seems to me that in the end I want to be with her more than you do. I can't find it.
It's the same for me. I couldn't find anyone I felt more comfortable with than Iris.
Well... hey...
What?

　A faint voice calls the girl's name and the old woman utters a small wish.

"....You..........................
What?
You fall in love you find your significant other and you are happy. ...be.
...Why would you..........

　The girl, perhaps sensing what the old woman was trying to say, opens her eyes wide and has a shocked expression on her face.
　Because the wish that the old woman uttered........was a check on what the girl was trying to do after losing the old woman.......

"I'm sorry but I know that you will suffer for this... and I know that you will suffer. Be angry that a dying man's selfish wish is to die, but still I am.... Ha ... I want you to 'live'.
Huh?
So please ... please ... please ... still consider me your best friend. So if you are ... make this last wish ... come true. And ... one day ... one more time ... smile from your heart like you used to ...
Iris?　Iris!

　Even as she was speaking, the old woman's voice grew weaker and weaker...........The girl could painfully feel that her life was about to end.
　So the girl shed tears and desperately called out to the old woman.......don't die yet.......
　

...was... was... it... was... it... was...
Iris!　

　It is truly ironic, but the girl has the heart tool of the bond, the Hecaton Cail, and the death of the person with whom she spun the bond sticks in the back of her mind too vividly, too painfully.

　
　In the empty room, in the dim darkness a girl's wail of sorrow echoed through the air........









　After quietly finishing her last conversation with her best friend, Solé, Alice wiped the tears that had been in her eyes before she knew it.

''I wanted to go to a place where my best friend ... the people I care about ... are there. But in doing so, I would have trampled on the last wish of my best friend, who had kept up with my selfishness for so long. From that day on, I couldn't.......die.
....
''I wanted to fulfill my best friend's wish somehow. But my heart had already started to treat everyone I knew on the premise of being divided into.......death................and I just couldn't have any kind of romantic feelings for them.

　Okay, so that's why Alice had said those words were........a curse. I want to die, but if I die, I will betray my best friend.
　Because it was the last wish of an existence that was dear to her heart, it must have continued to bind her heart more strongly than anything else.

''........After that, I tried many things. I tried playing musical instruments, painting, making things.......I had so much time that it was staggering, I mastered every single one of them.
Yes.
In the process, I also met and befriended new people... and saw them off many times. I kept looking at the world in transition and seeing more and more deaths go by. Feeling my heart grow colder and colder and less and less capable of feeling anything...

　The thing is, it's not a matter of years or decades... maybe thousands or tens of thousands of years, Alice has been living for a mind-boggling amount of time. Fulfilling her best friend's wish. That was her only goal.

But well, after spending so many years, I thought........ In this world where there are only humans, I'm sure I'll never be able to fulfill my best friend's wish forever... so from there, I researched many ways to get to another world.
Does that mean Alice came to this world on her own?
Yes, well, I found a way to do it, but the catalyst was a bit of a problem... and I stole the evil god's core, which was tightly sealed, and used it!
Huh?

　Compared to the method of being summoned, like I came here, it seems to me that heading to another world on your own is a tougher hurdle to overcome, but... ...

I took the ashes of my best friends and other important people in my body with Hecaton Cale, evolved into an even bigger monster, and then activated the great magic of transferring to another world with the help of my powers. It's a byproduct, but somehow, after taking in the ashes, I was able to keep transforming into my best friends' forms. Although it's my own power, there's a lot of mystery to me, Hekaton Kail...
...and you're in this world?
'Yes. I was surprised. It's partly because I'm even more powerful and haven't yet mastered my powers, but I was beaten to a pulp by Black-san as soon as I arrived in this world.
Speaking of which, Black said something about fighting Alice...

　Apparently, to Alice, Kuro was the first person she met when she first came to this world, but what kind of exchange was that that led to an immediate battle?

That's the thing. After defeating the last boss, I dove into the back dungeon with great enthusiasm, and it was like the back boss came out in my first move... No, seriously, he was super strong, Black-san.
...the way you say it.
'Anyway, that's how Black-san approached me, like he was going to teach me how to use my power~ and that's how he approached me. From there, I think Kite-san knows some of it, right?　I was called Chartier, meaning I wasn't the same person I used to be, and at the same time I was called Six Kings No Face.

　And 20,000 years ago, he fought the God Realm and became friends with Mr. Fate... what?　I don't think I know too much about the details.
　With that in mind, I'm about to ask her about that and the promise of her best friend, and Alice looks straight into my eyes and gives me a beautiful smile that almost sucks me in.

''And then I met you ... and I fell in love with you.
Huh?

　Dear Mom, Dad - words that were unexpectedly told to me along with stories from the past. I've been jokingly told this before... but what is it?　Now the words I heard - I had a completely different impression.